The Rise of Yin and Yang
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Over the Skies of Bordaussie, Yang´s Pov:
The Ride on the Albatross was as long as it was eventless, since it was a fairly old and simple Aircraft, none of the Police-helicopters became suspicious of us.
Even when asked over radio, all what Mr. Cacao needed to answer, was that he had a late client beyond Elwood, who needed an old machine to be picked up.
It was the perfect disguise if I may say so.
"We soon will arrive, Children, then we going to get us something to eat." Mrs. Million explained to us as we looked out of the window.
"Thank you…, I guess." I stated and she nodded.
Yin clambered herself on my arm, not sure about all the noise the Aircraft made, as well as being still wary of the entire situation.
"How is it at the Ranch?" I asked.
"Expect of a few things is it but a normal Ranch, we have some Cowboars and other livestock.
The Ranch was a Heritage from my Paternal Grandparents and it is since ancient times in the possession of the Million Family." Mrs. Million explained.
"I´ve read somewhere that the Million Family is one of the Oldest Families of the Republic, their Bloodline dating to the times before the founding of the Shepherd Republic, maybe even before the famous War of Sun and Moon, the one with the Lupycans and the Felidions." Yin stated from behind me.
"The National Library in Pharaoh had a couple of old History books, in which some of the oldest families were listed up, and there was yours in as well, along other old families like the Royal Shepherd Family, the Canine Clan from Basset, the Napage Clan and the Sacher Clan from Andalusia and several other Clans which still exist today, some more, others less populated." Yin continued and I saw a glimmer of astonishment in Mrs. Million´s eyes.
"So Gren and Calua are of such famous old Clans, never would have believed such a thing just by looking at them…
Then again, I barely know anything about their pasts, as they rarely speak about it…., same as Opera….., even during the interrogation several Months ago I got nothing but superficial informations, not even the reason of why they helped Bruno even after seeing his character.
Little I knew about the rumored tragedy at Kranz Manor, that a fire killed nearly anyone and that only a few kids were rescued by the Kurvaz, who coincidentally had been stationed not far away from it.
Apparently, Opera, Gren and Calua shall have been under those few survivors, that´s all I know and have found out, most of the records have either been lost or was classified." I heard her muttering to herself.
"Seems as though we have arrived at our destination, we are happy that you have chosen Albatross Airlines for your vacation and we hope you still have a nice travel." We heard Mr. Grenouille´s playful speech as the Aircraft dived down.
As we looked out of the Window, we could see a couple of large houses and staples in the dark, the lights in the house were on and the lanterns along a small landing space were also illuminated.
"I contacted our kids earlier to leave the lanterns on and that we would come home for a few days, until the police have given up searching for you, then we can bring you to the White Whale, to the residential quarters of S.I.T.K.A.
From then on you will live and learn there, we will give you a complete remodeling, to change your appearance as well as a new identity, for school you will be taught by our several tutors on board, who also teach the children of the various researchers, who are living upon the White Whale.
It won´t be easy, but it is better than being chased without a day of rest." Mr. Damiens explained to us.
"But wouldn´t they recognize us, what if they decide to deliver us to the police after restraining us…, and what is S.I.T.K.A even about?" I asked.
"Special Intervention Team of the Kurvaz Agency, that is the simplified name of it.
Originally it was called, S.I.T.F.E.L.D, Secret Intelligence Task-Force for Espionage, Law-Enforcement and Defense against Extraordinary Threats.
Established after Merveille started her carrier in the Kurvaz and while the White Whale was being Constructed.
Merveille and I searched in secret for extraordinary persons, with skills surpassing that of any normal person, even if trained in high-performance sports.
We have snipers with extreme skills, Martial Arts Masters, Veterans of the Home-Land Security as advisors, Engineers who construct the craziest inventions, special trained soldiers…., and of course, our children, Hybrids and Paladins, able to use special forces, for the benefit of the Republics Safety.
Over-all said, we have the most eccentric people the Republic has to offer in one place, but one each of them a valuable asset to the cause.
You could call us a secret service, the phantom division, or the Agency, like the ones you know out of Comics, which uphold the peace in the republic from within the shadows." He continued and honestly, I was in awe.
"So, Super-Heroes do exist?" I asked with eyes full of hope.
"Well, I wouldn´t per-se say that we are Super heroes…, but the children will surely explain things better to you than I or Merveille can do, it is better to hear it from those of your own age." Mr. Damiens stated, as the Albatross touched the ground and came, after several wrong squeaking sounds, to a stillstand.
"Well then, here is the end station, if I am no longer needed, I will make my way back, they will soon close the Shield, I have to be there before that, otherwise I have to camp outside tonight!" Mr. Grenouille explained aloud, as he, once we all had climbed out of the Aircraft, brought the same back to life, to fly back home.
"Keep care of yourself, Cacao, Quebec would be sad if something happens to you." Mrs. Million explained and the Old man nodded.
"Naturally, I want to live for a few years more you know, well then, make it good." He stated as we closed the door.
"Make it better." Mrs. Million stated with a smile.
"That I do, well then, off we go!" He stated over speaker, before he set the Aircraft in motion and after a few failed attempts, finally took off, right before the cliff of the little island.
"Well then, we should get inside, its still not that safe outside, even so far away from Schwarzwald and Elwood." Mrs. Million explained as she motioned us to follow her.
"Mom, Dad!" Suddenly we heard it coming from the main house as a few Kids in our age appeared.
A boy with short brown hair, sandy-brown fur, pale-green eyes and a big smile on his face.
He was definitely an attentive and smart person.
The girl had darker hair than her brother and a few strains of white hair, she possessed auburn eyes and brown fur all over he body expect her chin and snout, which was sandy-beige.
She appeared to me as a mischievous but friendly person.
"Betakin, Alpharia, how are you guys?" Mrs. Million asked as she picked up her daughter with laughter while Mr. Damiens embraced his son dearly, a little it reminded me of how Mom and Dad always played with us.
Automatically, to avert my sight from this portrait of a happy family, my eyes dropped to the floor, I felt how someone took my hand and I was sure, Yin felt the same way as I did.
Yin´s Pov:
As I looked at my brother, I could plainly see how the sight before us hurted him, thought I was sure that all of them did it completely unintentionally, it was a happy moment for them, while for us it was an agonizing one, as our family had long been broken.
Mom died, because of Blank and Nero´s attacks, and Dad casted us away, because we suddenly possessed the very forces her feared and hated, reminding him of it.
The death of our mother hit us hard, but father was absolutely devastated because of it, I think that was one of the reasons why he paid such a large sum to have our life saved, not just because we were his children, but because we were his wife's children, the last family he had and a permanent reminder that mom had even existed in the first place.
Us suddenly having these forces, must look like a massive betrayal to him, his money saved our life, but it also cursed it.
If we had only have developed these powers, but never truly used them, he would have hushed it up and hid us at home, let us have private tutors which he paid generously for them to keep their mouth shut, should they find out, that's for sure.
But now we had become murderers, each of us had killed one man, no matter if intentionally or not, we became a combination of the very existences he hated most in his life, Murderers and Hybrids.
Our life as a Family had ended, and seeing this happy one infront of us, was hurting us more than anything else.
I knew they did not do it intentionally but still…
I grabbed Yang´s hand and held it, for calming myself down but also for giving him emotional support.
"Alpharia, Betakin, we wish to introduce you to someone, please, take of your helmets." Mrs. Million stated and we nodded.
Slowly, as if the time passed in slow-motion, we took of the helmets stepping closer, reluctantly we dropped them, revealing our faces, the light of the Lantern illuminating us.
Of course the eyes of the Children went huge, our faces had been all over TV, in every News Channel, it was impossible for them not to know us.
"Those Two are Yin and Yang Libra and from today on they will live with us for a while, until we can give them a quarter in the White Whale.
Please be friendly to them, they´ve been through a lot." She explained to them as they looked in confusion and fear.
"Have you…, done it intentionally?" The boy, Betakin, asked us, well more stammered and even though he did not spoke it out loud, was it clear what he meant with that.
"No, we did not…, we were cornered and thought to have to die as they came at us with knives and guns, we were simple children, who knew but a little hand to hand combat…, as those forces broke out of us, we were as shocked as them, we never knew about them…
According to your mother it could well be, that we don´t even were born with them, but only possess them since our surgery half a year ago, as most of our damaged organs had been replaced, with organs not meant to be for transplantation but investigation.
They attacked us…, and we did just defended each other….., we are not to blame for what happened, understood!" Yang answered loudly for all of us to hear.
More in fear and sorrow, as I still held his hand, he began to tear up and I took him in an embrace, for him it was especially hard…, as he loved superheroes more than anything, having become a villain to the public was hurting him mentally.
"I see…, so it is as we have thought, it was plain to see that you defended each other and I think we might would have done the same…, however, there is one thing I cannot tolerate." Betakin explained.
"W-what is it?" Yang asked unsure.
"That you say that you aren´t to blame for it…, maybe you are not to blame for what they were about to do, it was a situation out of your control, but to say that you have nothing to do at all with it, is not possible, even with all they have done should you not forget that you killed them, you took a life and that is something you shall never forget.
Maybe they would have been thrown into jail if they were caught, before they could have stabbed you, reflecting on their actions for a long time, overcoming their sorrow and thirst for revenge and starting over…, eventually…, but you guys, with your action you took them the chance to ever redeem for their crimes, to ever have a second chance.
That is a fact which cannot be downplayed, no matter what and it should not have to be.
It is not a nice memory for sure, but it is a memory worth to be reminded, to understand that every life is precious no matter who lives it.
Of course it is a hard lesson to learn…., sometimes you just want to forget some people, want them to vanish without a trace, their existence erased out of the world-history…, but even if you have to kill someone, do not speak about it as if it doesn't concern you at all, have you understood that?" Betakin asked us with narrowed eyes and fixated glance, next to him Alpharia looked similar menacing.
His words stirred something up in me, and for the first time in these last few days the realization, that I had killed someone, came at me with almighty force, where there had always been excuses made and memories of it blocked, was there no way I could do so any longer, I killed a man , that was a fact, and as Betakin rightly said, should I neither forget it, or downplay it.
"I…, I understand your reasoning…, and I will accept it." I stated with clear eyes, same as my brother.
"If you understand that we can become friends I would say…, well then, welcome to the Million Ranch, we have enough rooms in here and will get you one or two of them ready.
Please come on in!" Betakin replied and we nodded reluctantly.
It was only natural for them, to be vary and suspicious of us, right now we weren´t the best company to wish for, most likely the Police would come to investigate here, after all the pilots must have heard our conversation, even if the sound of the Rotor-blades was ear-deafening.
As we stepped over the porch into the house we were greeted by a cozy warm temperature, the smell of freshly cooked eggs and bacon, the feeling of friendly hospitality, a welcoming atmosphere.
"You guys have cleaned up, nice going." Mr. Damiens explained as he stepped inside and nodded with an approving look on his face.
"It becomes rare that you stay here for a few days, so we wanted to make it as comfortable to you as possible…., you guys are always ever working, we barely see you." Alpharia explained with a huff and little I understood…., that their parents coming back was supposed to be a happy situation to them.
That they brought suspects like us with them home, was most likely but a nuisance to the Children, we weren´t expected and it was evident in their reluctance towards us.
"Please make yourself a home." Mr. Damiens explained as he walked past us and motioned us to follow him.
"Can we…, really?" I asked and they all nodded.
"T-t-thanks." I stated and so we stepped inside of the living room.
On the couch infront of the Television sat a young girl with blonde hair and blonde fur, bright green eyes and a curious glance, looking over the back of the seating towards us.
"Cetala, come and say hello." Miss Million explained as she looked at the little girl with love.
The same climbed down from the couch, looked around the corner at us, before running up to her mother and hiding behind the same.
"Have no fear, they are no bad guys." Mrs. Million explained to the same while cuddling with her.
"H-hello." The shy little girl stated and suddenly I felt a strange kind of feeling within me, it felt as though the girl radiated a comfortable heat by its mere presence, a heat that would melt every frozen heart, a heat that made you realize just how precious the little girl infront of them was.
"Cetala what did we tell you about that one thing?" Mrs. Million explained and suddenly the feeling I had vanished as fast as it came.
"I´m sorry." The little girl stated still clambering to her mother.
"What…, what did she do?" I asked confused as that comfortable feeling had vanished.
"She dived into your mind, to find out if you are a threat to her or not, she often does that to people she doesn´t know, most people barely notice it as such, they just feel themselves attracted to her in a certain way, like finding her overly cute, maybe they feel a comfortable heat or they can´t take their eyes of her.
Yeah, she has strong forces, very strong indeed…, she might look like an Angel, but sometimes she can be a real little devil." Mrs. Million stated, as she playfully flicked the nose of her daughter lightly.
"Anyways, you guys must be hungry, just let me cook something real quick which goes along to the Bacon and Eggs, why don´t you chill a bit, you guys need not to fear anything here.
Betakin, Alpharia, can you prepare the rooms for them?" Mrs. Million explained, while her Children nodded.
"Please by all means, let us help, you have already done so much for us, this is the least we can help with." I stated, Mother taught us to always repay a favor as soon as possible and not take it for granted.
"Alright if you say so, can anyone of you guys Cook?" Mrs. Million asked.
"I did cook a few things from time to time, when moms was busy or away from home…, and after she died…, but I would not say that I am a professional." I explained and she nodded.
"That´s good enough I guess, Cetala would you be a dear and help us too?" She replied and her youngest daughter nodded.
"Yang, please help the others to prepare the room, we will be only needing one, we don´t want to take away too much space, please do not make a fuss about our presence, I swear we won´t disturb your life." I explained and he nodded.
"Please by all means, we are glad to have you here…, I know this is all new, to all of you kids, but especially because you are special, it is important that you can get along with each other.
As we explained to you Yin and Yang, are we secretly working for S.I.T.K.A., which means that we take on the threats which the normal defense services cannot defeat, we are in need of your Kids assistance with your forces and for that you need to learn to work together." Mrs. Million explained as she looked at all of us.
After a while we nodded in understanding.
"Is there anything I can help with, Love?" Mr. Damiens asked his Fiancée, to overcome the resulting awkward silence that began to spread.
"You could get us some more firewood from outside, we are soon running out of it in here, if we want to keep it burning." Mrs. Million replied.
"Roger that, consider it done." Her Fiancée stated before he walked outside of the door.
"Well then, let´s show you your room, c´mon, we got a lot to do." I heard Betakin saying to Yang as the same was pulled away, along with the older kids.
"Well then, let´s get to it, shall we?" Mrs. Million stated as she put on an apron.
"Here for you, Yin." She stated as she took another apron from the cupboard and reached it over to me, for me to wear.
"T-Thank, Mrs. Million." I stated, as I looked at the neon-pink color of the same, which just had to be in heart-shape.
I might be a girl, but not every girl loves pink and I was one of those who did not…, in a way I was glad that Yang was not here seeing me in this embarrassing outfit.
He would never let me live it down.
"Oh please dear, by every means just call me Merveille, only my subordinates call me Mrs. Million, but I am still not married so Miss Million would be more accurate to say." Merveille explained and I looked up in surprise.
"Why aren´t you and Mr. Damiens married, I mean, the way I see it you have already Children, three of them at that?" I asked unsure, I always though that if you have more than one child with a man it means you automatically are married, at least ethically.
"Beats me…, I could now list various reasons for it up, but most of them are my own assumptions and one each of them could be false…, to be honest I am not really sure why Beluga hasn´t yet asked me to marry him…, but I also do not want to force him to a decision.
Marrying someone is supposed to be a binding contract, at least so it was ages before, once you are married, it means that you stay with your partner until death does part you, just as the vow demands it.
But nowadays, in one year, you see more divorces than marriages.
Maybe it is good that not everything has yet been engraved in stone…, but I do wish to share this special bond with him someday." She stated and her look was plagued with melancholy and hope alike.
"Do you think he is reluctant because he has second thoughts?" I asked, before I clasped my hands to shut my mouth, fearing that my question might have been a little too forward.
But Merveille seemed as indifferent as before.
"I don´t think that´s the case, I know he loves me and he knows I love him too…, one day we will make it official, I am sure about that." Merveille stated with a smile which seemed neither fake nor natural, simply neutral.
"I would rather say, that he fears to have nothing but himself to offer to me…, but he is more than enough for me….., I told him so over and over again, why can´t he see that…, if only he would value himself a little more." She mumbled, as she looked outside the window towards her husband, who was chopping firewood near the stables.
"Can you wash the salad for me, please?" She asked to change the topic and I nodded, telling myself that it might be for the best, before I forfeit my relation with her.
I hoped that Yang had an easier time than me.
Yang´s Pov:
Nothing was more awkward than to work next to people who were vary of your existence, of your presence near them.
It was plain to see that I was not trusted by Betakin and Alpharia Million and to be honest, I could understand them damn right.
"So you two have forces too, am I right?" Alpharia asked after a while of setting up the bed.
"Yeah…, though we never knew them prior to yesterday, ever since that accident at school, 6 months ago in pharaoh, our life has changed drastically." I explained.
"You said something about a surgery you two underwent?" Betakin asked curious.
"Yeah, due to that accident several of our organs had been damaged and needed to be replaced.
Your mother is of the assumption that the organs we originally should have get, have somehow been mixed up with the organs of Nero and Blank, which were still intact after their death and were to be examined to understand hybrids better.
Somehow the forces the two of them had possessed must have gone over towards us, as their DNA mixed up with ours.
Their Organs saved our life, but it is still a mystery to me how we even survived that transplantation, why didn´t our body rejected the organs, I mean, Nero and Blank, they looked so different to us, they were neither Caninu nor Felineko as much as I can tell.
Then again, if our body would have rejected the Organs we would surely have died, it is a miracle that we survived that explosion at all." I explained.
"The healing-factor of a Hybrid." Betakin explained and I looked confused.
"Hybrid-cells regenerate faster than that of normal Felineko or Caninu, superficial wounds heal within second, but deeper wounds still need some time, although not as much as the same wounds being inflicted on normal people.
Somehow your body was compatible with the organs, cells and Blood type of Hybrids, out of whatever reason, that's how your wounds have healed so fast." He stated and I was in awe.
"It would explain it I guess, how it was possible that we regained consciousness after only 2 months and that we neither possess any scars from that time, none but the scars of the surgery, where our body had been cut open.
We look just like before the incident, I never truly understood it either, but whenever father looked us…, now I understand it.
He must have seen how we healed up, how we returned to our former selves, as if never something had happened, in less than 6 months.
I was strange to us as well, but we deemed it to be the wonders of modern medicine.
It was clear to us that father must have paid a large sum of money to have us treated as fast as possible, we thought he might have paid for plastic surgery or something similar as well and that due to the drugs in the hospital our mind was still foggy and we simply forgot about those surgeries.
But with your explanation, it does make sense I guess…., maybe that is because Dad isn´t our Biological Father." I stated and they looked in shock.
"Wait, he isn´t?" Alpharia asked.
"yeah, they do not know it…, and neither does my Sister, but I have found out about it, several months ago, as I found some old documents of my mother, as I searched for a nice Photo of her, for her funeral.
In these documents I also found birth-documents and in them was written that Father, Gilmore Libra, was subscribed as father, but the biological father was said to be someone called Crimson, which means that Mom had to be pregnant with us both, before she met our Father.
What happened with our Biological father was no further elaborated and I also did not find anything out.
But considering everything…, maybe he was a hybrid in disguise, that would explain why our bodies did not rejected the organs of a hybrid, because we always had been hybrids, just without our forces having awakened.
That is my theory…, but please don´t tell Yin, she has it hard enough already." I explained and they nodded.
"still, how come you know so much about Hybrids?" I asked unsure as I looked at them.
"Didn´t Father or Mother told you…, we are Hybrids as well." Alpharia stated as she stepped next to her brother.
It was a bomb that had been dropped and it had such an impact on me that my mind literally was blown away.
"Wait….., what?" I asked in shock.
"They didn´t told you am I right…, what S.I.T.K.A. truly is?" Betakin asked.
"just that they gather people with special traits and abilities, out of the norm, even for performance athletes, and that they have kids with special forces, but due to your father introducing him as a paladin I thought she meant that with it, or that you are special talented, over-the-top IQ, physical abilities etc.
This…, I would have never guessed." I stated in honest shock.
And they nodded.
"She can talk normally and still be misunderstood…, anyways S.I.T.K.A is an Organization that has been established to conquer the threat which Baion, Nero and Blank posed to the Republic.
As they hadn´t yet appeared for all these years, the Organization hadn´t been made public to no one, not even the General of the Kurvaz knew about them.
Our Birth was a big Part of the Organization´s establishment, for to conquer the forces of Hybrids, you will need hybrids of your own.
Red Savarin, Rose and Carmine, were the only one of the Original 7 Hybrids to remain good and righteous, but as two of them hadn´t been born as Hybrids but had been abducted and forcefully made to Hybrids, long before our mother met Baion, Rose and Carmine refused to have anything to do with Baion anymore and so they hid themselves for years after they were saved from captivity.
That was during the time as our Brother, Red was born and began to grow up.
Mother wanted to create artificial life, hybrids for Baion to not feel so alone in this world.
It was science, the prospect of creating life, and the specific knowledge she would gain through it by Baion, which motivated her, but she was never aware of the consequences of her doing until it was all too late.
She never knew Baion´s true Character and what he truly planned with the Hybrids they created, Nero, Blank and Red.
He wanted to use them as weapons, as tools to call forth Lares and Lemures, the ancient Titano Machinae.
He managed to corrupt Blank and Nero into following his orders, but our Mother managed to come behind his plans and began to use her own wit to counter it, by modifying Red in a way which would allow him to resist Baion´s brainwashing.
In the end, as she was found out, mom had to flee and to hide Red who was yet not truly ready to take on any of the 4 remaining Hybrids, let alone Baion." Betakin explained as we sat down on the Bed.
"But through fleeing and burning the results as well as the facility, they had been working in, she was able to stop his plans for several years.
That's when she met Father, who helped her flee back then as well as to bring Brother Red in safety.
Both Mom and our Brother had to separate for either of both to have the opportunity to survive, as if it was a miracle both survived until today.
While in hiding at the Kurvaz Agency, Mom began to build up S.I.T.K.A. and gave birth to the three of us, to act as Red´s assistants once we were old enough to fight.
We were born to become weapons against the one who wanted to kill all life, but Mom didn´t counted with one thing…, Mother-feelings.
Even as a die-hard researcher, she was not resistant against the feelings she suddenly developed for us and before she knew it any better, she was so attached to us that we became a true Family, in the end she did not wanted us to fight, even when the time had come for us to do so.
Back then as Nero and Blank attacked, we should have fought alongside Red to take them down, but we were not allowed, nor were we ready anyways.
Our forces might look strong, but we are yet in no way a match to someone like Blank, who was deemed to be stronger than Nero.
But especially because they never knew love nor friendship and loyalty, the two of them failed in the end, they lost against Red and his friends and ultimately Baion lost against our mother.
We didn´t fought and later on we were told to live on as we used to do before, as normal Children, until our forces would be needed the next time, when even Red and the rest of the Organization cannot handle the situation alone anymore." Betakin told me and I was buff to say the least.
"So you and I…, we are roughly the same?" I asked and they nodded.
"But what happened to those other 2, you said that Red and you were to stand against the other four, but as much as I know only Nero and Blank attacked the Shepherd Republic, am I right?" I asked and Betakin nodded sighing deeply.
"No one knows….., our Parents searched in the old Facility but found no evidences, that they had ever been there, however they were described as still alive in the files which Mom stole from Baion and they were shown on a photography and one of the video-files Baion has made several years before.
Until now, no one has ever seen Vermillion and Rouge…, but we are of the assumption that they surely must be out there somewhere." Alpharia replied.
"Have you never wished you were normal." I asked after a while of awkward silence.
"Everyday." They both stated to my very surprise.
"Wait…, really?" I replied confused and they nodded, their faces contorted in pain and in sorrow.
"Mom…, she cried after Nero and Blank had died, no only because she still saw them as her children in some way, but also because we had lost our purpose, our purpose as Hybrids, we were modified for a cause and suddenly that one vanished, leaving us as beings with extraordinary power but without a true cause.
They told us to live forth a normal life, but we are not normal.
Sometimes, when we haven´t used our forces for a long time they begin to break out, they manifest in some way, and not always physically but often strange phenomena happen around us.
Unless we use our forces from time to time, those phenomena increase and gradually become more violent, until it physically affects us as well.
Mom doesn't like the current mood which society has developed against Hybrids, sure Nero and Blank were the prime example of what a Hybrid, which runs havoc, can do for terrible things, but we aren´t like them.
And still we have to hide ourselves as you might can imagine…, half of our life is shrouded in secrecy, never to be revealed unless the public image changes drastically.
For now, the Republic has accepted Red Savarin, Elh Melizee and our Father as special and extraordinary, but that´s because they have already defended the republic twice.
They are seen as heroes…., but not we…., we are no heroes, right now all we are is a danger to other, normal peoples, until we can say with every right, that we have mastered our forces.
But even if we are at that point, is it hard to say that we are heroes, we are more Defenders of the Republic, we defend the citizens by every means necessary, heroes always do the right thing, they rarely kill someone, only if they have to.
But we not, we do what we think is right, we do what saves the Republic and its people, as far as it is possible to us." Betakin explained and I nodded, little I had an assumption that it would end up like this.
The Heroes I knew were always righteous, good, never killed someone directly and if they do, they agonized over it for days, months, sometimes even years.
But in Betakin´s eyes I could see that he did not believed in that.
"Can you…, show me something, I mean I barely was able to truly understand what happened yesterday and I was also not truly conscious, I might have moved and talked but it all felt like within a dream, a daze, I did not consciously recognize that my sister and I had changed.
You say you were born like this so you surely must know on how to control your forces, at least to a big part, am I right?" I asked.
"Our forces are not for show…, but I guess it is better to show you for what you can use your forces, expect of simply wrecking chaos." Betakin explained.
"Let´s take this here for example.
If I now use a shield spell, like this…., Defendio!" He stated in a language I did not know, the porcelain vase he had picked up was faintly surrounded by a bluish aura and his forehead glowed up as well, a strange symbol appeared onto it.
"Now watch carefully." He stated as he concentrated and then let the Vase fall.
"Watch out!" I shouted but my worry was unnecessary, as the vase simply bounced back up a bit, then fell back down, 3 times until it stayed on the ground, fully intact.
"How….?" I asked confused and in awe.
"A shield spell is able to surround something, be it organic or inorganic, as long as you concentrate and hold it up, nothing can affect the surrounded object or creature." Betakin explained and my eyes were huge for sure.
"The Defense Spell is the first you learn as a Paladin, as our father is one and we to a half as well, we can use it in that way.
As a Hybrid we cannot use our forces on command with an incantation, it is more about what we feel in certain situations.
Back then as you wanted to save your sister you must have wished to shield her as fast as possible, to make sure no one can hurt her, therefore your body accelerated, your physical defense increased itself same as your physical power.
In that alley your Sister must have wanted to keep you both safe, she knew the bullet would hit one of you, so she pushed you aside, out of the line of fire with her own shield, while she simultaneously pushed the bullet and the attacker away, creating a forcefield around herself.
She floated because she pushed everything away from herself, even the ground.
It was kind of the same principle as the Shield spell I have shown you earlier, but instead of simply defending yourself against outer influence, you repel the same, you expand the shield above your skin and turn it into a sphere-shaped field of energy.
It is effective but takes a lot of Nono and slays down on your condition in a rapid way." Betakin continued as he showed me how he floated, with help of the bluish Aura from before, pushing him off the ground, surrounding the space between him before expanding it until he was surrounded by a perfect bubble of bluish energy.
"Why isn´t this symbol on your forehead appearing?" I asked as I understood the difference between shield-spell and forcefield.
"The symbol is indicating where you focus your Nono as a Paladin.
Felineko and Felidions use the energy, that has been accumulated from the inside of your body, calling it Nono.
The image of the magic casted is shaped within the mind, that's why the Nono gets concentrated in the brain and appears as a symbol there, before being released through your hands, wandering like brain-signals through your body.
This puts however extreme strain on your body, as you must uphold the image and the flow of Nono through your body.
Lupycans and Caninu use the energy that flies invisibly all around us and shape the image of the magic casted with their hands, taking it in through them, before releasing it back through them in the magic we wish to cast.
Just like we breath in and out through our lungs, this is called Rano.
It is easier to use than Nono, as it does not put as much strain on the body as when Nono is being accumulated, but Rano is harder to control, as it is not our own force we use, we literally borrow it from our surroundings.
A Hybrid on the other hand can use Rano through his entire body, breathing it in through every pore, it then gets accumulated within us and then released through the body part that we need it for.
That's why Hybrid forces are solely for attacking and defending, while paladin forces can be used in various ways.
That's also why Hybrid-forces or Ki, how they are called, can also only be used by Hybrids.
The Manipulation of Rano and Nono can be learned by anyone, with enough patience and a good tutor." Betakin explained
"You surely will have to train with us in the coming days, it is not wise to leave you out there without any true knowledge on how to control your forces, you will become a danger for others but also for yourself.
To understand the forces you have gained, you need to deal with them, in a secure area.
We often trained deep in the forest, or underneath the Ranch, in our special training-room." Alpharia continued.
"I see…, then we will be in your care, you have my gratitude and you surely will have my sister´s as well." I stated and they nodded.
"Well then, I guess we are done here, you guys need to lay low for a while, so you will have to get along with what we can offer you, we might still have some older clothes which we can borrow you, as I doubt you have anything else than the school uniform, you wear, haven´t you?" I asked and I was reminded that I indeed had nothing else than the few things I wore.
I had nothing but 50 silver rings in my purse, barely enough for a few clothes for us, and a sandwich for each, but then we were out of money.
If Mrs. Million would not have found us and brought us here, how long would we have been able to stay in hiding, before we had to come out to get ourselves at least something to eat.
We owed her and Mr. Damiens so much.
"Betakin, Alpharia, Yang, food is ready!" We heard it coming from downstairs.
"Well then let´s get us something to eat, I´m hungry." Alpharia stated as she walked downstairs, almost supported by the smell of freshly cooked food.
"Yeah let´s go, c´mon Yang." Betakin replied, as I was pulled along.
Maybe it was not so bad to depend on these people…, at least for a while.
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Several days later, we came to the fact, that our absence seemed to be a welcomed fact to several people, not only those who made us responsible for their own misery, but also those we never would have thought to betray us.
"So you say that you never actually were friends?" A news reporter asked Victoire Price, as they interviewed our friends…, or at least what we once had called friends.
"Nah, they were fine but I wouldn´t exactly say that we were friends, we hung out the one or the other times, but honestly they weren´t our league, they just always seemed so haughty, as if they were better than the rest of us." I heard it out of the mouth of my sister´s best friend, while the same had stopped eating, the fork with the egg half-lifted her mouth agape.
"Had they always have these forces, what do you think?" The reporter asked.
"I don´t know, if they did they surely were able to hide it very well…, I would have never thought that such a monster called herself my friend…, and her brother, that obnoxious brat, who would have thought that behind his carefree smile lied the face of a murderer, when I think back at all the moments we had spent with them, how often they might have been able to kill us, all the fights we had, maybe they had already killed us so often in their minds and wanted to see how it is to truly kill someone for once.
This makes me shudder…, what if we are their next target." Victoire theatrically stated with badly played fear.
I always knew that Woman were hard to figure out and that there was always a lot more going on under the surface, but I really would have loved to not here her trash-talking us.
But if I thought that was all we had to hear I was very wrong.
"Several students are shocked about the reveal of Yin and Yang Libra´s outing as E.C.E.P.U.O., evil creatures with extraordinary Powers of unknown origin and some are even ashamed of ever having befriended them.
But what is their own father thinking about all of it.
Let´s ask him…, Judge Libra, about the case of your Children, do yo have anything to say?" The reporter asked, as our father was passing by.
"I tell you what I have said to others as well, those aren´t my children, my own Children would have never ended up like criminals.
They had always been a little strange to me, but for the sake of my wife I learned to tolerate them, even going to far as to feel something like love for them, I raised them as best as I could, with the entire knowledge I possessed.
I don´t know why they ended up like this, maybe it was due to a circumstance which forced them to reveal themselves as different, I honestly don´t like the idea that the children, born by the woman I loved have become the very monsters which have taken her away from me.
My wife…, Regina Libra…., I don´t know who the father is, but she always loved her children dearly, I hope strongly, that the two men that have been killed by them, remain the only two whose life they will take.
Do not pack any more corpses upon your back, you have already done enough evil for a lifetime.
One of them is understandable, he wanted to rape Yin and kill Yang, the ones who commit crime on a daily base have it eventually coming at them, one day they will all meet their fate, whether it is death or the jail.
However the man in the alley was an avoidable victim, he was a father ripped apart by grief and misery, he wanted to avenge the death of his child, which might have been caused because the organ he could have got, was used on one of my children.
Who knows, maybe it was all wrong and these organs could have never been used on that child, due to blood type or whatever circumstance.
Maybe his wrath against me and my children was in that case completely unfounded and he just wanted to let loose, vent off his sorrow and grief onto someone.
If Yin or Yang had only knocked him out, he might have been able to get some help, from a psychologist, but with his death this chance was taken away from him.
It were unnecessary deaths resulted from unnecessary actions under extraordinary circumstances, but one thing is quite clear, in both cases, the Children I had raised were involved and due to that I am most ashamed that I did not raised them any better." Father stated with a grim expression.
"Given the case they would be caught, would you judge over them, what kind of judgement can we await?" The Reporter asked giving father not a chance of rest.
"If they were to be caught, I would judge them as I would do so with every criminal, so they better see not to ever cross my path again.
For the next time we see each other, it will be at the courtyard.
And believe me, for monsters, there exists no fair judgement, not yet." Father stated and in his eyes, I could see a warning, it was superficial and one might be able to overhear it, but I was sure, in his speech there had been several warning and truths being included.
The thing with not being his children was a hint to the biological truth, we weren´t his children, and whoever this Crimson was, he was our true father, the one from whom we had this resistance against the cells of a Hybrid.
As father stated that we had always seemed strange to him, he must have mean what Betakin told me several days ago, that a Hybrid heals up faster than a normal Felineko or Caninu.
That must have been the reason we survived the surgery and were able to heal up, even thought we should have had to be long dead by then.
He told us not to become the monsters who have taken away our Mother, that the two men we accidently killed should remain the only ones we would kill.
He told us that he understood our reasons and the circumstances leading to the incidents, but that he would not tolerate anymore deaths which could be avoided.
That if we were to be caught, he would have to judge us like criminals.
"There is no such thing as a fair court for Hybrids, at least not yet." I thought as I remembered father´s words, about monsters.
Father never believed that this term was to be about a creature that mercilessly kills anything in its way.
He always said, that the word monster, is but a term to describe something normal people cannot understand, something impossible to them.
Father meant to say that if we were to be caught, we might be killed, by those who catch us, because a monster has no rights.
Even if I understood all of that, was it hard for me to hear it like this, but even harder was it for Yin, who teared up by these words, her back patted by Cetala and Alpharia, while Betakin laid a hand on my shoulder for comfort.
"That is what we all fear, to be exposed and called a monster, it is a shame you had to already hear it." He stated unsure.
"Our old life…, we cannot ever return to it, aren´t we?" I asked Beluga, as he told us to call him so.
"I hardly think so…., I´m sorry." He replied and I nodded, I imagined something like that.
"All we can do…, is to make the best out of the life we have now." I stated and they all nodded.
Flashback End:
A week after our arrival at the Million Ranch, we were brought to our Quarters in the secret vaults of the White Whale.
Ever since, this was our new Home now, our new world, and unless the society of the Republic changes its view towards Hybrids, we will have to remain in here.
We thought and we hoped that for a long time, this was all we had to concern ourselves with.
Oh, how wrong had been this thought.
I should have known that nothing lasts forever.
One and a Half year later, hell broke loose upon the Republic and the Siren began to ring, throughout the entire Vault.
A call to arms was made and so we were supposed to follow…
To be continued…
A/N: Here is the third Chapter in the Origin Story of Yin and Yang Libra, the Hybrid twins who never knew what they were, until the day their forces broke out in the worst of circumstances.
We surely will get to see them again, even after this story ends, so please look out for them, as always, read and recommend, and leave a review if you like to.
See you soon, yours truly, the Storyteller and his Books.